To our British friends living in the USA...

For those of you missing the familiar foods of "home", here's a place that supplies them to you here in America! (You may already be familiar with this website, but I thought I'd share it, just in case...)

goodwoods.com

Thanks so much. I do know of this one!! Luckily there is an international store here that stocks just about everything I want except Frys Cream. I believe they are even going to order it for me!! :-) Speaking of English things - I actually made Cornish pasties today!! Can't wait for dinner!

OK That sounds delicious...what is it?

Which one Zany - the Frys Cream Chocolate bar or the Cornish pasties?? :-)

Silly me!! Editing to tell you that the choc bar is a dark, smooth flat bar with an exquisite cream filling. The Cornish pasties are Shortcrust pastry type baskets, for want of another word, filled with chopped onion, potatoes and steak, brushed with egg and baked in the oven. I serve them with mashed potatoes and fresh green beans. :-)

This message was edited Monday, Sep 30th 3:00 PM

Louisa, I thought Cornish pasties were stuffed with things like tripe and kidney, other kinds of offal.

No Kathy, not at all!! You've been looking at the wrong recipes!! :-) Here's a link although maybe this should have been posted on the recipe forum. :-)


http://www.hwatson.force9.co.uk/cookbook/recipes/meat/cornishpasties.htm

Yummy! I'll take both please!

You could try making them Zany!! Very easy!! I would send you some but don't know what they would taste like once they got to their destination!! :-)

The link sound great. I am not a fan of offal, but my dad loves it: heart, kidney, liver, etc. All the times he has eaten "pasties" in UK it has been those kinds. My mom tends to go for the bird ones: pigeon, chicken, or the fish ones. I think I will try making those for dinner Sunday. Maybe by then it will be cool enough to have the oven going for a while.

And they think they will go back to London next fall! Or maybe a week in London and a week in Paris. Sounds like they think they are getting better! They had decided this spring that their abroad traveling days were done, but maybe not yet :D

My Mom's family is from England and my uncles absolute favorite thing in the world ws Frye's Cream bars!!!

P.s.
Lousia,
Glad to see you home safe and sound!!! I hope you had a nice visit!!!!
Becky

here's a nice UK recipe url ... http://www.hwatson.force9.co.uk/cookbook/recipes.htm

Kathy travelling is great fun and I know your parents love to do it - it will keep them young!! :-) Becky your uncle has good taste. So your mother is English then?? I haven't checked out that link yet MaVie but I will. It's been a long time since I made these pasties and they were huge but very tasty. I have two left over for today's lunch and I think I like them even better when they are cold. One thing I forgot to do was to brush them with egg as a glaze.

MaVie that was the link I posted!! :-)

sorry Louisa, i thought it was different, since the one i did has the index of all the recipes this lady has online.

That's OK Mavie. At least we both have the same tastes when it comes to choosing the best sites!! :-)

u got that right Louisa :). DG members deserves the best at all times. i try my best, spending hrs and hrs to find the best fitting site the www has to offer. :)

thats awful to think that Cornish pasties are filled with offal. get it?

Louisa I'll mail you a Chocolate Cream today if you want? plain or milk chocolate

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Mark are you serious???? Thank you so very much!! lol!! Dark choc of course, but first let me first see if the store managed to acquire them and then I'll let you know. The lengths some people will go to in order to satisfy their cravings!! :-) Got your offal!! heh-heh!!

do you remember it used to come in 5 flavors? a diffrent one per segment/

and I thought pasties were those tiny things strippers wore on their nipples........

never heard of pasties in that context

ROFL!! Woody your pasties are pronounced PAYSTEES and I believe are little shiny objects!! Whereas our pasties sound like gasties!! :-)

So pasties are stuck on with glue, pasries are filled with good food, so it must be patsies that are filled with offal?

lol Zany - I think you just hit the nail on the head!! And Mark, I forgot to mention that I do indeed remember a choc bar like that - was it really the Frys Cream??

Mark, there used to be a chocolate bar like that sold in US; made by Cadbury, which I believe used to be UK? or Swiss maybe. Anyway, superb chocolate. One segment was chocolate liqueur, one was caramel, one was orange creme, one was solid chocolate, the fifth? I don't remember. But it was so good! It got me started on my preference of European chocolate rather than US which is very different.

We were punning last night about offal and awful and awe-full. Funny how they all mean very different things. But to my dad, offal is awe-ful, to my mom it is awful. Awful (or awe-full) offal in either case :)

I think so.

It's hard to find real Cadbury's choc over here but it is possible. If you look at the label on most choc bars that purport to be British, you will find they are made in Canada and it does taste differently.

true you cant beat British chocolate for taste. Galaxy, Kit Kat, Wispa.

I've seen in the US that you guys have the names the wrong way round ie right name wrong bar. how come?

i do not know about above mentioned chocolate candies. i like only one brand Lindt [sp?] it is the creme of the crop far as i am concerned.

so what is wrong with offal? if cooked right, they are very delicious. :)

This message was edited Wednesday, Oct 2nd 9:46 PM

So you folks don't think the pasties that strippers wear are filled with good tasting....well never mind

LOL @ kikisdad

LOL! I don't know if they are good tasting but they are not in Good Taste!

either way you cant beat a good Cornish Pasty.

I don't think there's anything to beat a Forfar Bridie.


Jist madgik they are, ye ken!!!

*Och aye*

Wintermoor

Edited to add link.

http://www.scotlandgifts.com/Products/Recipes/forfar_bridies.htm

This message was edited Thursday, Oct 3rd 4:43 AM

ay, I ken, Wintermoor.

forgot about that one. last time I had one was after arriving in Cairnryan from Larne many moons ago.

just to confuse everyone

ken kens ken but ken does-ny ken ken
LOL

Aye, Mark, that'll get them!!!

Sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack
Sheep should sleep in a shed.

*tongue's gone*

Wintermoor

Och Barry!! Hoots mon!! It's a brave Sassenach that attempts anything Scottish!! lol!!

Oh it's you Megs!! Howsitgaun yersell??

The Sassenach always had to get a word in.... lol

These wee pies here http://www.hwatson.force9.co.uk/cookbook/recipes/meat/scotchpies.htm are also from your recipe link, but I could eat them to a band playing.

I remember once in Glasgow, my Mum brought six warm pies out of the bakers, and gave them to me to hold, as she had forgotten something. When she came back out of the shop, I had just devoured the last pie. I never lived it down ;-)

They were, and still are my favourites. When I'm in Scotland, I usually make about 10 disappear each day. Whatever the filling, whether mutton or beef, they are the world beaters for me.

*yum*

Wintermoor

Looked at the link Barry and sent it to the desk top. I shall definitely try them out and the pastry sounds better than the short crust. I'm also quite partial to lamb. You must have been as greedy a little boy as I was a little girl....lol!! My neighbour would send me to the local shop to buy choc biscuits. Of course in those days they were weighed out and put into a white paper bag. Remember!! By the time I got to deliver them to her I swear I must have eaten about six. She would never say anything and by the way, she was from Aberdeen. A lovely lady, with an enchanting soft voice!! Something else I will never forget and takes me back to my days in Malta. They have a pastry pie filled with cheese or meat and peas. They were called pastizzi!! Cheese cakes or pea cakes!! The most delicious thing I've ever tasted in my life and nearly every night would eat them for late supper. I did a search for them and take a look at this first link - it's hilarious. Now I wonder how long it will be before Dave moves this thread to the recipe forum!! :-)

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.ziegenhof-wuernsreuth.de/pastizzi.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dpastizzi%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DG

And here is the real stuff from Malta. Boy did I just take a walk down memory lane and found more goodies, especially the bread pudding which I make often but is very fattening.

http://www.maltagozo.com/recipes.html#recipes

Aren't the Dutch known for great chocolate?